Carver Quotes

Carver Quote of the day

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

Jeffrey Carver imagines wonders and allows us to share his vision.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well

I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.